suse pro 9.1: no longer boots after kernel upgrade (X locks up)

tdonoughue · 02-26-2005, 02:05 PM

The newly released kernel also crashes my machine, even earlier than the last time! If I take out the vga= line from Grub, I get as far as the Lunix Plug and Play driver before it hangs. If I just go for level 3 (taking out all options except the root, etc., I can get as far as the Rieser logs before it hangs.

Advice?

tdonoughue · 02-26-2005, 02:37 PM

Nevermind. I must be getting good at this. Needed vga=normal in there to get it to boot. Went to level 3, reinstalled the nvidia driver (oddly, it didn't detect that there was one there already this time). Did sax2. Poof. All better.

Record time, too.

NicknameHater · 03-01-2005, 10:02 AM

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Originally posted by tdonoughue
I believe you need to reinstall the nvidia driver (see step 2 of post #12 above). That is what you missed. It needs to relink the driver to the new kernel. Without that, you have only reconfigured the driver that does not link to the kernel correctly.

(said the relative newbie, hoping that those pros would not shoot down his theory)

Of course I did. This is exactly my point. I reinstalled the driver without any result!

Also, there is no difference with the very new kernel-update.

tdonoughue · 03-02-2005, 10:22 PM

Odd. I was able to resurrect mine each time with that routine (there seemed to be a second Kernel upgrade before the NVIDIA one reached my machine, and it crashed things again).

Oh, well. Moot now that the new Kernel has circulated. I can even get 3D again...

On to other fun areas. Like getting wine to work...